HOWTO: Merge files under Windows

Today I needed to merge to Linux tar files on Windows. I downloaded the two Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE). After unzipping them you get two tar files called

OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2

OVM_EL4U5_X86_PVM_10gR3BIEE.tgz.file1of2

To be able to merge them and then “untar” those files, under Linux or Unix you would do something like:

…with other words, you would “cat” the first and second file into a file and then “untar”-ed it on the fly via the “tar -xvz”. In Windows you would do this via the following command, that is the first “cat” part, merging the files, via: